One of two convicts captured after an 11-hour...

ESCAPE PLEA.

November 25, 1987|Compiled from staff reports

TAVARES — ESCAPE PLEA. One of two convicts captured after an 11-hour prison break in July pleaded guilty to escape in Lake Circuit Court on Tuesday and was sentenced to three years in prison. Judge Jerry Lockett sentenced Kenneth Palmer, 22, Winter Haven, to three years in addition to the 30-year-term he is serving for second-degree murder, kidnapping, robbery, burglary, conspiracy, grand theft and a previous escape. Palmer and Clarence England, 29, Tampa, were captured by guards from Lake Correctional Institution on July 29. England is serving 60 years for battery on an officer, robbery and resisting an officer with violence. His case was postponed until next week.